2014 Monthly Project: Jan-14 (Smoke Trails)

My project for this year is to try a different aspect of photography each month and publish some results. The theme I chose for January is smoke trails against a plain, black backdrop. 

It involved lighting insence sticks and taking slow exposures, capturing the movement of the smoke.

On most of them, I have applied photoshop filters, the second one has been replicated and inverted mirror like - this often creates interesting patterns. I also tried a couple of inverse filters which converts dark colours to light and vice versa.

Anyway, enjoy my January project!

All Stretched Out - Jan14

Some shots of Jonathan lying on our new bedspread including one with Aunty Jacquie!

Tummy Time & Visitors - Jan14

Below are some shots of Jonathan and I while he was having some time on his playmat. Plus today our friends Francesca, Matt and their beagle 'Ciel' visited. It was great having them over for breakfast and snapped a few shots along the way.

A very hot day today so largely spent inside watching cricket!

f365: Day 365

Well here we are. The last photo of my one year photo journey. It just does not seem a year ago that Jenn and I headed out to Riverlife and went kayaking on the Brisbane River and I took my first shot - a selfie (or groupie?) of us posing with NYE fireworks being set off in the background.

Ironically, I had a nice chat this morning with Mark and Tracey in NZ - it was them that originally gave me the idea (with support from Sue McKone) of this project. In all honesty, I never thought I'd be able to pull it off.

But I'd especially like to thank all the regular followers as well as the less regular - thanks for the comments and feedback.

So my last photo is somewhat underwhelming - I had the urge to hit some golf balls down at the Victoria Park Golf Complex's driving range this morning. I got a few odd looks upon rearranging the balls to form the 365 - not that it helped my driving at all!

Anyway, have a fantastic 2014 everybody and I'll still do the odd post as well as my one-month photography project :-)

f365: Day 364

On the penultimate day of my photo project, Jonathan yet again takes centre stage (and rightly so as things are always happening/changing).

He had some tummy time this afternoon so we all had our cameras out!

He seemed to be enjoying himself - enjoy the shots.

f365: Day 363

Apparently it hit 41C in our suburb this afternoon (we are west of the city so tend to get hotter temperatures but conversely, cooler nights in winter).

We did very little today, other than barricade ourselves inside in air conditioned comfort. We did take Jacquie out to Mt Cootha look out, a popular spot we tend to take visitors to Brisbane.

The first shot is a rather pixelated shot of the city using my Android phone fully zoomed in. The second shot shows the build up of a big storm we are currently experiencing (the temperature dropped plus have had a bit of rain).

f365: Day 362

My sister-in-law Jacquie arrived today from Newcastle. She has been eagerly awaiting meeting Jonathan as well!

After picking her up, we went to the nearby Nudgee Beach so as to let the dogs have a good run and splash around.

Persistent cloud cover prevented it from being another scorcher, but otherwise we have a nice relaxing day!